Nobody had known why their new Alpha had insisted on a formal party at the house. There had been rumours swirling for the week since it was announced ranging from announcing he was not going to be acting as their Alpha after all, to presenting a new and more suitable mate. The fact he was away with Selene and Jonas only added to the speculation.
One or two people had suggested it was to do with his issues with Cordelia, but no one was quite right about what the real reason was.
Sawyer made sure he explained the fact the house was going to be more open than his father had allowed to everybody on an individual basis, but he avoided mentioning Elizabeth’s injury. He wanted that news to spread on its own – and it did. The way people looked at her changed slowly, person by person, until fina
